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The Move and ELO mailing lists and The Move Online, FTM and Carl Wayne websites will feature excerpts from ‘Live At The Fillmore 1969’ sleeve notes, together with exclusive and expanded features.
“We’d put this set together for America because we were going to play the Fillmore West, where all the great American underground bands had played - and what were we gonna do? Forty-five minutes of our UK hits?! ‘Curly’? ‘Blackberry Way’? So we decided to do one Move hit, ‘I Can Hear The Grass Grow’, a reworked ‘Cherry Blossom Clinic’ plus ‘Hello Susie’. The rest were all West Coast things, great songs by The Nazz like ‘Open My Eyes’ and ‘Under The Ice’, Mann & Weil’s ‘Don’t Make My Baby Blue’ – but all done Move-style! I still believe that Roy, Bev, Rick and myself were a formidable live band and we gave some of our best performances on that trip, which is why I kept the tapes all these years.” Carl Wayne in conversation with Mark Paytress, 2003
2CD edition will contain full colour 12-page booklet with rare and unseen photos and memorabilia, exclusive commentary, new and archive interviews with members of The Move.
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BEV’S DIARY
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It was October 1st, 1969 when The Move set out on their first – and last – USA tour. Three of the original members, Carl Wayne, Roy Wood and myself, plus bassist Rick Price and road manager John “Upsy” Downing set off in a cold October morning from Birmingham airport to the then London Airport and onto New York via Boston…. For Carl, Roy, Rick and myself, it was our first ever trip to the USA. But Upsy had been several times before as roadie with the Jimi Hendrix Experience so he knew all the ropes and we were very much in his hands…
 As this album now shows, we put on something extra special. We knew these were the last dates of the tour. But we knew we were off back home – and maybe knew deep down we would never return to the USA, not as The Move, at any rate. We wanted to impress Joe Cocker and Little Richard – and the ‘hard to please’ audiences of the Fillmore West.
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Listening back to the restored and remastered music we played over those nights, I think we did leave a lasting impression, with powerful arrangements of The Nazz’s ‘Open My Eyes’ and ‘Under The Ice’, reworked and heavy rock renditions of Roy Wood compositions ‘Cherry Blossom Clinic’, ‘I Can Hear The Grass Grow’ and ‘Hello Susie’, melodic versions featuring some lovely vocal harmonies on Tom Paxton’s ‘Last Thing On My Mind’ and Goffin and King’s ‘Goin’ Back’, an extraordinary re-working of Frankie Laine’s ‘Don’t Make My Baby Blue’ and the complicated and excellent arrangement of Ars Nova’s ‘Field’s Of People’.
(2 pages of Bev’s Diary will feature in the 2CD edition while exclusive expanded extracts covering the whole of The Move’s 1969 USA tour will be serialised during January 2012 on The Move’s mailing list Useless Information – subscribe now!).
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PHOTO
CREDITS (from top):
CARL on stage 1969 photo
© Napier Russell NME
BEV by the pool 1969 © Bev Bevan
JOHN 'UPSY' DOWNING 1969 © Bev Bevan
On The Road Again - CARL & ROY 1969 © Bev Bevan
Have U-HAUL trailer, will travel! - RICK stretches his legs 1969 © Bev Bevan
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